For me, photography is not a means by which to create beautiful art, but a unique way of encountering genuine reality

Making a definitive declaration of intent or meaning kills the photograph.

If you were to ask me to define a photograph in a few words, I would say it is a fossil of light and time.

Photography is the act of "fixing" time, not of "expressing" the world. The camera is an inadequate tool for extracting a vision of the world or of beauty.

Most of what I want simply slips away like water flowing through a net, and always what remains are only vague, elusive fragments of images... that sink into countless strata in my mind.

I want to take a lot of Nasty photos.

The photographer who attempts to fit happily into the world by using the traditional perspective of the camera will end up falling into the hole of the "idea" he has dug for himself.

I wanted to go to the end of photography.

Visualize yourself at your best. Be determined to earn the title of being excellent. From working hard and practicing, one day you will earn its badge of honor.

When the mercy of God comes into the life of a person, he increases and succeeds in all things.

Merely to have survived is not an index of excellence.

I was no hero. The dearest wishes of my heart were for safety and tranquility. The world was a perilous place, wrong for the likes of me.

The way I understand it is the communists are in, the atheists are in, the agnostics are in, but religion is out.

The die has been cast.

One of the deepest principles of life and leadership: it's not about you.

I said earlier that dead things don't always stay dead. Well, I'm one of them. don't worry - I'm not like the Strigoi. But I did die once (I don't recommend it).

Every time I've gotten myself into trouble, it's because I'm choosing a project based on a long-term career goal as opposed to something that speaks to me at the moment.

I see myself in everything I write. All the good guys are me.